SMT 911
A Key to a Criminal
Syracuse, NY – If a cop car is blocking your car it is probably best not to take matters into your own hands…especially if you are holding keys in your hand. A Syracuse woman who was annoyed that a police car was blocking her own car decided to call 911 to report the “emergency.” Not having the patience to wait for the car to be moved, for some reason she thought that by dragging her keys across the car it would speed up the process. But vandalizing a cop car never speeds up the process. If anything, it slowed it down. When officers arrived at the scene the woman confronted them. After telling the woman to wait, she approached them again and demanded they moved the car, this time using profanity. Her next moved was to “key” the key of her problems…resulting in more problems. After finding gouges in the patrol car, the woman was charged with criminal mischief.
(Pot) Smoke Signals
Kissimmee, FL - If you’re about to make a drug deal but you pull up and see the other guy talking to the cops, it’s probably best to just keep driving. The seizure of a dozen gallon bags filled with pot and more than $4,000 in cash all began with a car parked the wrong way. It was obvious way after officers pulled up and caught a whiff of marijuana. At 1 a.m. during a routine patrol police noticed a black sedan parked facing traffic and as they neared the car they could smell burning marijuana. While the driver was telling police he was waiting for a friend to return home, a second vehicle carrying two men pulled alongside the parked car, rolled down its window and let out a heavier smell of burned marijuana. Told to pull over, the driver of the second car sped into a nearby driveway where he was searched. When police found $4,048 in cash in his pocket, the 22-year-old said that it was to pay his rent. Sure it was. His excuse was even less believable afterthey found 16 one-gallon bags of marijuana, 12 of them each filled completely with a half pound of the drug. He was arrested on nine felony charges, including possession and intent to sell marijuana and resisting arrest with violence.
Stealing Not Taken ‘Litely’
Santa Rosa, CA – When three girlfriends pulled up to Sam’s Market to buy beer and were confronted with a thief, they discovered that alcohol, if used correctly, could be an anti-theft device. After purchasing a 12-pack of Miller Lite the three girls were talking in the parking lot when a man came up and snatched one of the girls wallets out of her hand. As the man tried to get onto his bicycle, the girl who had just lost her wallet realized that she was holding the 12-pack of beer bottles in her hand. The 28-year-old hoisted the box to shoulder height, reared back and shot-put the beer at the unsuspecting burglar who was about a dozen feet away. With a direct hit, the thief was lucky the beer was ‘lite’, but it was still enough to take him down. The woman retrieved her purse and took the man’s bike until police arrived and he was arrested.
